Example sentences for: caledonia

How can you use “caledonia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Consider the natives of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, who earned their place in military annals by subduing and then eating the crew of a French survey ship in 1850.

  • It was she who chose the name of British Columbia — over New Caledonia, New Hanover, New Cornwall, or New Georgia.

  • Le Monde led its front page Thursday with an agreement that would lead to New Caledonia's complete independence from France within 15 to 20 years.

  • So, for example, many island bird species are threatened, like the kagu of New Caledonia, but British seabird populations, like puffins, are booming.

  • Long after Northwest Coast Indians had found the region to be a hospitable land of plenty, it was explored and “worked” by Scottish fur traders who called it New Caledonia.


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